André Maurois Quotes

• Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

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• In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

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• If you value a man’s regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper – and despise it.

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• If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

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• If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

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• Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

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• A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

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• A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

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• A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

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• Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.

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  Tags in Writers And Writing

• The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

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  Topics in Work

• An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

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  Topics in Age

• Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

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  Topics in Age, Funny

André Maurois (33)

Birth:	26th July, 1885
Death:	9th October, 1967
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

About

André Maurois was a French author. She educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen, both in Normandy. His first novel, Les silences du colonel Bramble, was a witty and socially realistic account of that experience. It was an immediate success in France. He died in 1967 in Neuilly-sur-Seine after a long career as an author of novels, biographies, histories, children's books and science fiction stories. He is buried in Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery near Paris.

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